HS-LS2-8 | Performance Expectation
Evaluate the evidence for the role of group behavior on individual and species’ chances to survive and reproduce.
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HS-LS2-8 | Performance Expectation
Evaluate the evidence for the role of group behavior on individual and species’ chances to survive and reproduce.
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Animal Collective: How group behavior can produce surprising problems—and solutions!
Students will draw their own social networks, ponder the meaning of complexity and begin to notice unexpected patterns that emerge around them, unnoticed. Through hands-on activities and digital experiments, students will discover how complexity research enriches our daily lives.
Alignment summary( Target)
Lessons: 1, 2, 3, 4
Students will discuss costs and benefits of group membership from an evolutionary standpoint in Lesson 1. They will gain deeper insights into group living—its costs, benefits, and emergent properties—throughought the unit.
Included resources
6 lessons and 3 supporting media items.



Lesson 3



Lesson 6